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Word: toughest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tournament pointed to a possible answer to this question as Martina Hingis gave Graf her toughest challenge. Hingis, who is 15 years old, appears ready to be the leader of the next generation. Her rise and the inevitable arrival of Venus Williams, another 15-year old, may bring interest back to the women's game...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: In Case You Missed It | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...stole the G.O.P.'s positions misses the point. He stole their issues and refinished them with his own less severe, and therefore more acceptable, gloss. Even welfare reform was made easier to swallow for the Democrats' more liberal adherents when the President swore he would "fix" the bill's toughest commands in a second term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...This is probably some of the toughest competition we'll see this year," Harvard coach Jennifer Bates said. "Rhode Island just came back from playing [national powers] Hawaii and Long Beach State...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women's Spikers Swept, But It's O.K. | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...major achievement to boast: it has honed to perfection the craft of boosting up Politburo members and keeping them going, even if they were not at the top of their capacity to rule the country," says Zarakhovich. Yeltsin is now putting the Soviet school of medicine to its toughest test. -->